Lexic.us

Definition of Pyrola uniflora

1. Noun. Delicate evergreen dwarf herb of north temperate regions having a solitary white terminal flower; sometimes placed in genus Pyrola.

Lexicographical Neighbors of Pyrola Uniflora

Literary usage of Pyrola uniflora

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. English Botany, Or, Coloured Figures of British Plants, with Their Essential ...by James Sowerby, James Edward Smith by James Sowerby, James Edward Smith (1794)
"pyrola uniflora. Linn. Sp. PL 568. Fl. Dan. t. 8. very incorrect. ... pyrola uniflora, though a native of the Lapland, Norway, ..."

2. English Botany; Or, Coloured Figures of British Plants, with Their Essential by Sir James Edward Smith, James Sowerby (1807)
"pyrola uniflora. Linn. Sj•. Pi . 568. Fl. Dan. t. 8. very incorrect. ... pyrola uniflora, though a native of the Lapland, Norway, ..."

3. Travels in Various Countries of Europe, Asia and Africa by Edward Daniel Clarke (1817)
"... Basaltic Rocks — pyrola uniflora—Celtic Antiquities—I'isit paid to them by the King and Queen — Professor Malthus and Mr. Otter set out for Norway. ..."

4. Organography of Plants, Especially of the Archegoniata and Spermaphyta by Karl Goebel, Isaac Bayley Balfour (1905)
"... the assimilating shoots no longer exist in many saprophytes, for example Monotropa. pyrola uniflora. If we examine, for example, the growth of Pyrola ..."

5. The Natural History of Plants: Their Forms, Growth, Reproduction, and by Anton Kerner von Marilaun (1902)
"In pyrola uniflora (see fig. 3082), a native of fir-woods, autogamy is brought about at ... This pollen is then carried to other flowers of pyrola uniflora, ..."

6. Memoirs of the Torrey Botanical Club by Torrey Botanical Club (1894)
"3. MONESES Salisb. in SF Gray, Arr. Brit. PI. 2: 403 (1821). 2915. Moneses uniflora (L.) A. Gray, Man. 273 (1848). pyrola uniflora L. Sp. PI. ..."

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